User:Milton Beychok/Storage box

EPA email for more info

Hi, XXXX:

Thank you for request to join Citizendium -- we're looking forward to your first contributions! However, since you made your application using a free email account, we need a way to verify your actual identity ... which is a key feature that distinguishes us from Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias.

We realize that you may find doing this a bit tedious, but in times past, when we've tried less rigorous procedures for membership, a few bad apples did join under assumed names or false identities in order to cause us trouble or only to press their own personalized agendas. We really ARE looking forward to your own contributions, so please take a few additional minutes to complete your application.

What do we actually need from you? Any of these will work:

(1) A paid or organizational email account that contains a portion of your name would be acceptable, something such as BobSmith@Yale.alumni.edu., or DonMWebster@TucsonFireDepartment.org, or CharlesJones@SomeBusiness.com.

(2) Any web page that that uses the free email address you gave us and that identifies you by your full name somewhere on that website would probably work as well.

(3) Or a number of members have joined by attaching a scan or a JPG of their student identity card or driver's license with much of the more personal information blanked out.

(4) Also, you could use the "BeenVerified" link on our application page (at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount), go through their (free) process, and send me the link to your BeenVerified page.

Please bear with us and we look forward to hearing from you in the very near future!

Miscellaneous

• CZ:Approval Process explains how the article approval process works
• constables@citizendium.org
• Name = ~~~   Name and time = ~~~~   Time = ~~~~~
• CZ:Templates lists all of the available templates
• Commenting out part of an Edit page: <!-- Comments inside this tag will not show -->
• Unsigned template: {{Subst:Unsignedshort|name|time}}

Example: ...said Milton Beychok (talk) 12:15, 23 September 2008

• Indented blockquote:

<blockquote><p style="margin-left: 1%; margin-right: 8%; font-size: 1.0em;"> ........ </p></blockquote>

• Speedy deletion template: {{Speedydelete|Reason|~~~~}}

Character Codes for Copy and Paste

ℝ <&#8477>  ℜ   ℛ   ℚ   ℙ   ℘   ℗   №   ℕ   ℔   ℓ   ℒ   ℑ   ℐ   ℏ   ℎ   ℍ   ℌ   ℋ   ℊ   ℉   ℈   ℇ   ℆   ℅   ℄   ℃   ℂ   ℁   ℀   ℏ   ∲ ∮ ∫ ½ ¼ ¾

Archiving a Talk page

• In search box, search for User talk:Milton Beychok/Archive X
• When notified that such a page does'nt exist, click on "You can create this page"
• When you get to the blank Edit page of the new Archive page, enter {{Archive box|auto=long}} and save the page.
• Then copy and paste the current Talk page contents into the new archive and save the page. Finally, delete the content of the current Talk page (except for the current time template).

Wiki class table

See Edit page for how these are done.

Wiki Class Table
(Caption)

Column1 heading	Column2 heading
Row1 Item1	Row1 Item 2
Row2 Item1	Row2 Item 2

Wiki Class Table w/clearance (Caption) Column1 heading Column2 heading Row1 Item1 Row1 Item 2 Row2 Item1 Row2 Item 2

Provide space around images or tables

{| border="0" width="330" align="right"
|
|Image or Table here
|}

Table for use in book articles

Author	Name or names
Language	English or ?
Publisher	Name
Date	Date (X Edition)
Cover type	Hardback or Soft cover
Pages	XXX
ISBN	XXXX...

Just copy and paste this code into the article, and fill in the table:

{|align=right cellpadding=2 width=200 style="border:1px solid #000000;font-size:85%;background:#EEEEEE;"
|-
|width="65"|'''Author'''||
|-
|'''Language'''||
|-
|'''Publisher'''||
|-
|'''Date'''||
|-
|'''Cover type'''||
|-
|'''Pages'''||
|-
|'''ISBN'''||
|}

Table for Multiple Images

{| border="0" align="center"
|
|Image 1
|Image 2
|}

Side-by-side tables with variable spacing between tables

This could easily be adapted for three or more side-by-side tables. Look at Edit page to see how this is done.

Caption For Both Tables (if wanted)

Caption Header Header AAA BBB CCC DDD

Caption Header Header EEE FFF GGG HHH

Citing Journal Articles

{{cite journal| author=|title=|journal=|volume=|issue=| pages=|date=|id=|url=}}

Citing Books

{{cite book| author=|title=|edition=|publisher=|year=|pages=|id=ISBN XXXX }}

Template for lining up = signs for list of equation parameters

{|border="0" cellpadding="2"
|-
|align=right|where:
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|-
|align=right|
|align=left|=
|}

Fair Use rationale

The image is used to identify the International Organization for Standards. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey. The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image. The logo is of a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution. Because it is a logo there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.

Raising or lowering baseline of LaTeX math characters

<font style="vertical-align:±xx%;"><math> ... </math></font>

Recruitment letter

Dear colleagues,

The on-line encyclopedia "Citizendium" at http://en.citizendium.org needs your help. It is a non-profit volunteer project to build a free online information resource. It is like Wikipedia but with more input from professionals like yourselves.

Prospective authors and/or editors in Citizendium are asked to use their real names (anonymous names are not used) and to submit brief professional biographies when they register to participate. Many of the current particpants are university professors and other professionals.

New members may select to be authors or editors (or both) in their fields of expertise. All articles created in the Citizendium encyclopedia are open to be freely read by anyone, but they may only be edited or revised by the registered members. As a result, articles in the Citizendium receive much more expert attention than do articles in Wikipedia.

Articles deemed to be of high quality by the members are denoted as "Approved" articles. Articles which have not yet been approved are considered to be draft articles.

The atmosphere in Citizendium is very much more collegial than in Wikipedia and there simply is none of the vandalism of articles that plagues Wikipedia where anyone is allowed to revise articles. The primary emphasis in Citizendium is to collaborate in the development and review of articles by discussion rather than by unilaterally making significant revisions.

Visit us and look at the Chemical Engineering articles at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Chemical_Engineering_Subgroup. We need more engineering authors as well as more engineering editors to provide expert guidance in developing new articles and improving some of the current articles.

Please consider joining Citizendium, if only to check out the atmosphere. If you join us, your work will be respected because our community will have confidence in your expertise.

We look forward to seeing you on Citizendium ... and we need your help!!

If you are retired and looking for a way to give back some of your knowledge and experience, Citizendium is a wonderful way to do so.

Regards, Milton Beychok

Sandbox notice

As a fellow Chemical Engineer, I want to offer you a warm welcome! Please visit the Category:Chemical Engineering Subgroup to see all of the Chemical Engineering articles that we already have. I am going to take the libery of making you a member of that subgroup. If you need any help at any time, please contact me on my Talk page at here.

I have also taken the liberty of creating a personal sandbox page for you. To access your sandbox, just click on the link labeled My sandbox in the upper, left-hand corner of your User page. Once you get there, you can click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page and you can:

• Practice writing articles in the Wiki markup language.
• If you already know the Wiki markup language, you can draft any articles you want to write and keep changing them until you are completely satisfied with them ... and then you can create a new article by cutting and pasting the sandbox article into the new one.
• You can invite other Citizens to visit your sandbox, review a prospective article that you wrote in sandbox, and ask for their comments/critique before you proceed to cut and paste it into a new article.

Don't know what the Wiki markup language is? Click ==>CZ:How to edit an article    Another excellent way to learn the Wiki markup coding is to click on the "Edit" tab at the top of any article and see how the markup coding was used there.

Enjoy! Milton Beychok 18:56, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

[[User:XXX XXX/My sandbox|'''My sandbox''']]

Accessing Metadata templates

Template:Article name/Metadata (Best to use the small search box in Navigation column)

Transclusion tags

CZ:Markup tags for partial transclusion of selected text in an article

Google search box for CZ

• Access user's Java Script (.js) file: User:Milton Beychok/monobook.js
• Then enter the coding just below:

importScript("User:Milton Beychok/searchbox.js")

// from [[User:Henrik/sandbox/google-search]] at Wikipedia (please include this line)
function install_search( )

{
document.getElementById('searchBody').innerHTML+='<div>'+
'<FORM method=get action="http://www.google.com/search">'+
'<input type=hidden name="ie" value="UTF-8" /><input type=hidden name="oe" value="UTF-8" />'+
'<INPUT id="searchInput" name="q" type="text" accesskey="f" value="" />'+
'<input type="hidden" name="domains" value="en.citizendium.org" />'+
'<input type=radio name=sitesearch value="">Web'+
'<input type=radio name=sitesearch value="en.citizendium.org" checked />CZ'+
'<INPUT type="submit" name="btnG" VALUE="Google Search"  /></FORM></div>';
}
addOnloadHook(install_search);

• Be sure to copy the above coding from this page (do not copy it from the edit page).
• Follow the instruction in your Java Script (.js) file about clearing your cache after you add the above coding.